17 January 2013
Chapter 1: The Little Village
The blazing sun was shining down on a little village called Lamina. The village was built in the middle of the desert and underneath ran a little river. The village was protected by a wooden wall that was built to stop intruders coming in and a draw bridge that came down over the shallow river. In the middle of the village was a market, lots of people were standing around the stalls looking to see if they could find anything to buy. Amongst the crowd was a young lad, he was twelve years old with blond hair and crystal blue eyes. He wore a torn plain shirt and dark blue jeans that had been made into shorts. The boy went over to one of the stalls looking at all the lovely food; his mouth began to water as if he was eating the food already. The boy looked at the polite old man which had facial grey hair dangling from his face. The old man was serving an old wrinkly woman in a long white dress that had brown stains at the bottom. The boy could see that the old man was too busy staring into the women's eyes, so he took a loaf of bread and sprinted in to a dark gloomy alley. He looked back to see if the old man saw him but the man was so in love that he didn't notice what had just happened.
As the boy rushed around the corner he bumped into his sister called Jasmine, who was the boys' twin. She had long wavy blond hair, crystal blue eyes and was wearing a pink dress with bright red roses. "Arthur where have you been, I've been looking all over for you," Jasmine shouted. "I've just been looking at the stalls, that's all, and I brought mum some bread," replied Arthur. Jasmine looked down at the bread. "You've stolen it, haven't you? What would mum say if she found out?" "We'll she won't if you don't tell her; anyway I'm going home now, you coming?" The girl looked at the boy with an evil stare. "Ok but please just don't do it again or else I will tell mother." The twins walked down the long damp alley; halfway through someone was standing in the middle of the alley watching the twins walking towards them. Jasmine didn't like the look of the person so she whispered into Arthur's left ear. "Let's turn around and find another way back home." Jasmine's body began to tremble and her heart began to race faster as they got closer to the shadow. "Don't be silly, it'll be alright, there are two of us. I'll protect you," Arthur whispered. The twins took hold of each other's hands. They couldn't see much because the person had a robe that covered its face. All they could see were sharp green eyes glaring down at them. Arthur breathed in and then asked in a stern voice, "who are you?" I am a friend and I was sent here to tell you a message!" The boy shouted, "I said who are you and what message!" "I am Slither from Pandora." Before Slither could carry on, the twins began to laugh and walked past following the path back home.
Who is this mysterious Slither? Is it a friend or a a foe and what message did Slither want to tell the twins?
The Legend of Pandora. • Opuss № I